Alex Hanna, Louisa Krause, Matthew Maher, Aaron Clifton Moten

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Louisa Krause and Aaron Clifton Moten

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Matthew Maher and Aaron Clifton Moten

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Matthew Maher

The Flick


Mainstage Theater


Tues & Wed @ 7, Thu & Fri @ 8, Sat @ 2:30 & 8, Sun @ 2:30 & 7:30

Written by Annie Baker
Directed by Sam Gold

In a run-down movie theater in central Massachusetts, three underpaid employees mop the floors and attend to one of the last 35 millimeter film projectors in the state. Their tiny battles and not-so-tiny heartbreaks play out in the empty aisles, becoming more gripping than the lackluster, second-run movies on screen. With keen insight and a finely-tuned comic eye, The Flick is a hilarious and heart-rending cry for authenticity in a fast-changing world.

Featuring
Alex Hanna
Skylar/The Dreaming Man
Creative Team
David Zinn
Scenic & Costume Design
Jane Cox
Lighting Design
Bray Poor
Sound Design
Katrina Herrmann
Production Stage Manager

Playwrights Horizons’ 2012/2013 season productions are generously supported by the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

The Flick is the result of a Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust commission awarded by Playwrights Horizons.

The Flick is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award.

Reviews
  • “CRITIC’S PICK. HILARIOUS AND TOUCHING. Annie Baker, one of the freshest and most talented dramatists to emerge Off Broadway in the past decade, writes with tenderness and keen insight. Her writing is a great blessing to performers: The Flick draws out nakedly truthful and unadorned acting. This lovingly observed play will sink deep into your consciousness.”

    — Charles Isherwood, NY Times | Read Full Article
  • “Funny, heartbreaking, sly, and unblinking. The Flick may be the best argument anyone has yet made for the continued necessity, and profound uniqueness, of theater. ”

    — Jesse Green, New York Magazine | Read Full Article
More Reviews
  • “Ms. Baker is a master miniaturist chasing big themes — love and loyalty; kindness and cruelty; fantasy and reality. As in The Aliens and Circle Mirror Transformation, the dialogue is UNCANNILY, YOU-ARE-THERE AUTHENTIC.”

    — Joe Dziemianowicz, NY Daily News
  • “ANNIE BAKER AND SAM GOLD ARE HOT TO THE TOUCH AND STILL TURNING OUT MUST-WATCH WORK. The amazing Matthew Maher plays Sam with unnerving honesty. Aaron Clifton Moten is a talent-and-a-half and a real find. Louisa Krause gives a wonderfully inventive, up-yours performance.”

    — Marilyn Stasio, Variety
  • “FOUR STARS. A hypnotic, heartbreaking, micro-epic about movies and moving on. Irreducibly theatrical.”

    — David Cote, Time Out New York
  • “EXHILARATING. Sam Gold’s cast is utterly in tune at every moment.”

    — Michael Feingold, Village Voice
  • “PERFECTION. Annie Baker is a genuine original, the real thing. She follows last season's Uncle Vanya version with this bold absolutely mesmerizing comic drama.”

    — David Finkle, Huffington Post